Total War: Rome II dated for September

Total War: Rome II will be released for PC on September 3, publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly have announced.

The Total War: Rome II Collector's Edition.

Anyone who preorders the strategy game from participating retailers will also receive the Greek States Culture Pack at launch, which adds three additional factions--Epirus, Athens, and Sparta--to the game. Sega says that playing as Sparta will present a "considerable" challenge even to advanced Total War players.

Additionally, a single run of 22,000 Total War: Rome II Collector's Editions will be sold, featuring a numbered (via laser-etching) steelbook case, a tabula set, tesserae dice, a set of the Total War Cards: Punic Wars card game, a canvas map, and an assembly kit for a 26cm x 12cm x 12cm Roman Onager siege catapult. The Collector's Edition of Total War: Rome II will cost $154.99/£109.99.

September is great, better than Christmas. Collectors Eds. this one is a bit of a disappointment. Will fight temptation and get Collectors at sale price afterwards. Only problem, what to do to distract from hopefully great reviews and fight temptation to buy game sooner. Looked at my 143 Hours for TW Empire, 547 hours TW Napoleon and 985 hours Shogun. Not much more to do there. I know I will read a book. Hmmmmmmmmm!

And my birthday is in September too!!! They were thinking of me they were thinking me! (joking) Probably felt the insane love I generate towards them ever since I heard about a remake of Rome Total War, my most favourite game ever. I'm sorry for being fangirlish, I just had to let it out, wont happen again ^^ Though I was hoping for a CE with a Roman General on horse. That would have been awesome.

I actually used to like GOOD collector's editions. Now I understand why people think they are a complete waste of money and pure crap. Who the hell wants a gimp catapult or whatever the hell that is? The red CE box looks very nice but the rest of it is garbage. People will still buy it though. I'd rather go buy a 20-pack of soap.

@CastorT @gilaliz Don't participate. Wait for a sale down the line. Make it cost them money. The game's not going anywhere.

I want the game badly too. But just waiting a few months won't kill me.

I loved Metro 2033, and I've been crazy for Last Light. But I've decided to not pre-purchase because they've literally locked out a difficulty mode to force people to pre-purchase. I'm waiting until it goes on sale later, with the difficulty mode included as it should be.

And there's plenty of games to play in the meantime. There are more and more games every day. Too many to even find time to play. Use that against publishers who pull this crap, and de-prioritize their games.